Actress and comedian Megan Mullally joked Thursday that she was going underground after President Trump shared old footage of them to promote the passage of the farm bill.
“omg,” Mullally tweeted. “if you guys need me, i’ll be in a hole in the ground.”
omg
— Megan Mullally (@MeganMullally) December 20, 2018
if you guys need me, i’ll be in a hole in the ground ????
— Megan Mullally (@MeganMullally) December 20, 2018
Minutes earlier, Trump posted a video of the pair from the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2005, during which the then-real estate mogul and reality television host joined Mullally in a rendition of the theme song from “Green Acres” for a sketch called “Emmy Idol,” satirizing “American Idol.” “Green Acres” was a popular CBS sitcom in the 1960s and ’70s starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor.
Farm Bill signing in 15 minutes! #Emmys #TBT pic.twitter.com/KtSS17xvIn
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2018
“It was at the pinnacle of ‘The Apprentice’ and everybody thought he was just this funny caricature,” Mullally told the Sioux City Journal last year of the experience while promoting the reboot of her NBC series, “Will & Grace.” “Do we still think it’s hilarious? I don’t know.”
Trump addressed the sketch in a September 2005 interview on Howard Stern’s radio show.
“Then I get there and they say … ‘you should put on overalls,’ and I didn’t even know what overalls were,” Trump told Stern. “I said, ‘what the hell is that?’ And they gave me a pair of things that they bought at some farm area.”
In the 2017 “Will & Grace” reboot, Mullally’s character Karen Walker is a Trump supporter. The program originally aired 1998 to 2006, drawing critical acclaim.
Trump on Thursday signed the five-year, $867 billion farm bill into law. The legislation includes a generous aid package for struggling farmers and ranchers, but it comes as the White House promises to introduce tougher work requirements for food stamp benefits through the Department of Agriculture.
